aiden aslin, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. it is just over a year since you were released from captivity after being held by the pro russian forces in occupied donetsk. looking at you, your physical scars have healed. what about your mental scars? erm, definitely my physical scars have definitely healed or, like, i m now a lot bigger compared to when i was released. i m sure everyone would remember the images. i was a lot skinnier than i am now. but i think mentally, you know, i m mentally better than i was, especially, like, just coming out of captivity. erm, but as most people can probably observe, like, i still have, like, a lot of issues mentallyjust dealing with going back out into the big wide world after going through what we did go through. i am wondering how a youth in his late teens turning 20 could become so fixated on fighting in other people s wars. because that s what happened. pretty much, erm, and i think.i think, like, the important thing to realise is.is t
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is a part of you that would like to, might even contemplate going back to fight? there. there s always a part of me that would like to go back. a lot of my ukrainian friends that are released, a lot of them will go back to serving in the military. some of them will end up going back to the front line out of their choice. but if we go back, obviously, the geneva convention states that if you re taken into captivity a second time, you won t have those protections. so if.if russia wanted to, they could decide to just shoot you. will you do it or not? no, no. my.my voice is a lot more powerful on. on a platform, being able to peak about ukraine and spread awareness about the conditions that our guys are still serving in the prisons in donetsk and elsewhere. you have said, i would do it all again. no regrets. i m struggling to believe you really mean that. i would definitely do it again. it s hard for people to understand. had i not done it, i wouldn t